Try modprobe sd_mod and see if you can mount your ZIP drive. I had to add 'above ppa sd_mod' line to my modules.conf file.
Pavel.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Goodwin [mailto:bgoodwi3@tampabay.rr.com]
> Sent: Thu, December 12, 2002 8:39 PM
> To: psyche-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Zip 100 Parallel Drive -
>
>
> I am trying to install a zip100 parallel port drive that I
> have used on
> two other RH-7.3 computers and keep getting an error message -
>
> [root@box1 root]# mount /dev/sda4
> mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device
>
> I put the line
> alias block-major-8 ppa
> in /etc/modules.conf
>
> and
> /sbin/insmod ppa
> in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>
>
> I made a directory /mnt/zip and /etc/fstab is as follows -
>
> [root@box1 root]# cat /etc/fstab
> LABEL=/ / ext3
> defaults 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3
> defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts
> gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> none /proc proc
> defaults 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs
> defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdb3 swap swap
> defaults 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos vfat
> noauto,owner 0 0
> /SWAP swap swap
> defaults 0 0
> /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip ext2
> noauto,defaults 0 0
>
> dmesg yields the following -
>
> ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
> ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
> ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2
> ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2
> scsi1 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.09
>
> Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong?
>
> Bob Goodwin Durant, Florida
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
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